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i l Specification of Letters `PatentNo To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS HARVEY, of lVooster, in the county of Vayne and State of Ohio, have invented acertain Improve ment in Washing-Machines, the construction and operation of which I have described in the following specificationV and illustrated in its accompanying drawings with suiicient clearness to enable competent and skilful workmen in: the arts to which it pertains `or is most nearly allied tolmake and use my invention. s

My said invention consists in: the combination and arrangement'of parts by which I am enabled to move two vertical platesup and down two inclined planes in: such a manner that they will still remain ina vertical position; the said inclined `planes ibeing connected together at their lower edges so as to form the bottom of a wash tub; the said moving vertical plates `beingiso constructed and attached to' the other parts of the machine hereinafter described, Athat while one of them is moving upward along one of `the `inclined planes, the remaining one is moving downward upon the other inclined plane, and vice-versa, the downward progress of each vertical plate `being stopped by a fixed, perforated, corrugated,lvertical partition which is fixed over the junction of the two inclined planes and so as to divide the tub into two portions; by which combi-` nation and arrangement of parts Iam enabled, through the medium of the said vertical plates to project jets of water in alternate directions through the perforations in the central partition, upon and against a 1 quantity of clothes that may beplaced on each side of the said partit-ion for the purpose of being washed, and at the same time so agitate the said clothes as to efectually clean them from dir t, as` hereinafter more fully set forth. j

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings as follows:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my machine. F ig.` 2 is a vertical section showing the interior parts. Fig. 3 is a plan. Fig. 4 is an end elevation. Fig.`5 is an elevation of the central perforated partition.` l

A, A', and B, B', are the posts or legs of my machine.

C is the casing, or sides and ends, and

. 2e,324,`datednovemtr aegisal 7` D, Df, the tw@ incinta@magnifying ne bottom. l l` form the posts A,`A11andr1B, BQsso that vthe portions of themwwhich prise above the` 1 body of the: mach-ine bevel outward the direction` of` `its length@ as` shown. Fig; f l, 3 l j 60 the upper angles being `rounded off` as` shown: in Figs. l and `2.; tItheir:providethewfour3` l.

links E, n` anar, n', which ,uniteilnear y l their lower ends `by meansi ofthe squarey rails j .1 mi, G, G, andthe rounded rails `JELHQeach of j "l which is mortised intotl the links, n n the ends of the former orsquare; railslG,` GH, passing outward, through; the1 links.:` .Theser outer` u j ends or projectingparts of the sguarelfrails :l l

Gr', are then dressed iinto` a cylmitricall form forapurpose tobewhereafter explainedjo I These links are placed;andrkept` inposition` j by passingkthe rounded rails LQI", thlou h 11 them, and through `thefupper `pa1."t`sofft ie .5; j

legs, in such a manner thateachpairfof com` nected links may` rotate? verticali-y1 `uporryit Tol the` square? rails"` G, Gfbefore described,

I attach the iron rods: 1I, and la, aptwofto i, i

each rail, and passthemintoxtlie `loodyiiof the tub through perforationshmadewin itsfen'ds"` forations: `"being `showin `hyrdotted lines, Sin I the same` figure, and the perforations being i l,

square rail G on thesarne side of the ma,-`

chine, by enteringthe said projecting` endsl `1 into two perforations madej for that," puri pose in the ends of thesaidlink asshown uponthe drawings, and which3perforatiolrsln` are made so much larger than the ends which` j enter them as'to` allow,` the latter to play., `j 1 freely in the .formersf Tlieltwo remaining projecting ends of `,the square ralls G, G ,1"`

`as as van axis through a limitedlcirculan; z` n.

so for: that purpose, as showningFig.` 2, the per? i i the projecting rounded endgof4 the` `second i on the other side of theymachne are conf".

tion. The dirty clothes and a suiciency of water having been introduced into the spaces between the vertical plates L, L, and the centralpartition N, and the doors or llids o, o having been closed, the links E, E and if F, F, are operated by alternately elevating and depressing the rounded rails or handles H, H, which alternate elevation and depression' will 'drawand push, backward and forward, the rods z', and 7c, lo, and with them the vertical plates L, L., thereby communicating to the latter an alternate motion up and down the inclined planes D, D', which form the bottom of the tub, one plate being ascending, while the other Vis descending. The eifect of this alternate motion of these vertical plates will be, that the descending plate will, in its downward course gather the clothes before it into a heap, (for which operation the concave shape of its inner surface peculiarly lits it), and press them tightly against the central partition N, but in consequence of the pressure being greatest at the bottom by reason of the concavity of the lower part of the inner surface, the clothes will be forced upward at the same time, and thereby will be rubbed Yagainst theVY corrugations ofY the Y'said partition N, and the water will, as another consequence of the pressure, be forced in a series ofjets through the perforations in the central partition, which will have the effect of rinsing the clothes in the other division of the tub and when the pressure is removed by reversing the motion of the handle H or H', as the case may be, the clothes fall down to the bottom of the tub, to be again gathered up by the descent of the vertical plate, and so on alternately. It will also be readily seen that a similar process is taking place in the other' division of the tub, and through similar means, but in such a manner however, that the like operations on each side of the central partition are not simultaneous but alternate. t

The nature of the processes which I have described as alternating with each other constitutes the`Y efficiency and value of my invention, as by means of them I am enabled to subject the clothes on each side of the central corrugated partition, first to a rubbing, or pressing and pounding process, to be immediately succeeded by a very eflicient rinsing process, and so on alternately till the washing is completed.

The particular improvement which constitutes my said invention and which I claim as having been originally and first invented by me, is

The combination of the two vertical movable plates L, L', with the inclined planes D, D', and the fixed, perforated, corrugated, partition N, the whole constructed, combined, arranged, and operated ,as hereinbefore described, and for the purposes set forth.

THOMAS HARVEY.

Witnesses:

JOHN P. JEFFRIES, C. C. PARSONS. 

